by Shannon Butler While going through and transcribing the Vail Photography studio ledgers, it's fun to put names to faces. The name Charles Barnes has come up several times in the process and it turns out that there were actually two different men with that same name living here in Poughkeepsie, both born about the same time. One of these men had a wife and kids, the other had a beloved dog and enjoyed showing off his dog a bit like some of us obsessed pet owners today. At first, it was tricky to determine which of these Barnes was which and who actually owned the dog? Both were born in 1847 and both lived here in Poughkeepsie. One owned a furniture store on Main Street for many years while the other studied at Rutgers. One had a fabulous house designed by Arnout Cannon on Church street while the other lived with his brothers George and Maurice in a house on Cannon Street. After some digging I discovered that the first image on the right is Charles Haven Barnes and his wife Marianna. This Charles is the one who owned the furniture store on Main street and had two children, Gilbert [...]